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Can you be an entrepreneur without suffering?
Sustainable entrepreneurship is rarely heard in startup circles. Instead you hear hustle, sacrifice, and pride in grinding longer than everyone else. Yet many founders I coach are trying a different path: building something great where ambition and wellbeing coexist, without burning down your life.
The biggest mistake founders make in designing their lives
Work-life balance for entrepreneurs can get you eye-rolled out of a room full of founders. The startup world rarely rewards it. Hustle culture treats it as weakness, and many people measure their commitment by how little sleep they got last night.
Why Is It So Hard to Change?
You know what needs to change. You have tried before. And somehow, you end up right back where you started. Here is why change is so hard, and what actually works.
The CEO I could not help
One reason I coach is because there was one leader I loved but could not help.
How to Build Company Culture That Makes Your Startup Team Want to Stay
A practical guide to building a high-trust, high-performing startup culture, from weekly rituals to quarterly offsites.
The mythical CEO
There is no perfect in leadership. Why then is it so damn hard to accept our own imperfections?
Comparing our insides to everybody else's outsides
Looking back, I can see that in my earliest days as a founder and CEO I was comparing my insides to everybody else’s outsides. That was not a recipe for success.
The myth of the impervious leader
Those founders you read about in the press and idolize? Yep, they are up at 3 AM too.
Premeditatio Malorum: A Founder's Guide to Negative Visualization and Building Resilience
Premeditatio malorum is a Stoic practice meaning “the premeditation of evils.” Used by philosophers like Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, it helps build resilience in difficulty. It is also a powerful practice I use with founders and CEOs to reset perspective when anxiety and goalpost chasing take over.
You are not talented enough to work 80 hours a week. And that's ok.
If Lebron is this serious about rest, maybe you should be too?
